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wrote on 12/3/03 8:18 PM:

"Christine Burel" wrote in message
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"Jack" wrote in message
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Hi, I have a male,neutered tabby; almost 3 years old. Over the past few
months he has started exhibiting rather disturbing behaviour. A month or
so

Another thought: the feral kitty I was working with had a problem with
biting and this is what I did upon advice; I would praise him constantly for
all the good things he did; Id' play with him, give him lots of good
attention but if he tried to bite me though he immediately was left in his
room without any further contact or comments from me. I'd go in after his
"time-out" (about 10 minutes) and start over again.

Setting aside the fact that this apparently worked, for some reason
the idea of a "time-out" for a cat just tickles me. :-)


It does work. When Pearl gets too nuisancy trying to ambush the other cats I
put her in the bedroom for 5 or 10 minutes. Then when she comes out, she
will settle down. You have to be consistant but they want to be with
"everyone" so they behave.

Karen